What equipment is housed in the observatory?
SLOOH’s observatories high upon Mount Teide in the Canary Islands are far more powerful than a backyard telescope, and SLOOH members can access them from anywhere in the world. Each observatory is enclosed in a motorized dome and has a motorized equatorial mount. On each mount is a catadioptric telescope, which has a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera. Next to the catadioptric is a refractor telescope with a focuser, a filter wheel and a CCD camera, which we use for wide field imaging. Several computers housed within the domes control the equipment and maintain a telecommunications connection to our web site. Outside the domes is another CCD camera with an all-sky lens.
